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Price Discrimination and Bargaining Power in the Global Vaccine Market

April 13, 2013

By Linda Li Since the 1980’s, the market structure of vaccines has become increasingly oligopolistic, and in some cases monopolistic. Alongside these supply trends, we see the emergence and growth of group procurement schemes on the demand side of the market. National government and international organization procure vaccines on behalf of end users. Two such […]

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Debunking the Cost-Shifting Myth: An Analysis of Dnamic Price Discrimination in California Hospitals

April 3, 2013

By Omar Nazzal Cost-shifting, a dynamic form of price discrimination, is a phenomenon in which hospitals shift the burden of decreases in government-sponsored healthcare reimbursement rates to private health insurers. In this paper, I construct a data set spanning 2007 – 2011 that matches financial metrics of California hospitals to hospital- and market-specific characteristics with […]

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